Polanski understood immediately, was, despite his love for imperial Hollywood, not the typical Hollywood executive, let alone head of production. Foremost, Evans was great looking. He looked relaxed, satiated, sexy, like someone who was still enjoying the movie business, or what was left of it. In fact, he looked so good it almost played against him. His black velvet hair and pressed collars belied how impossibly hard he worked, and wrongly assured many, at first glance, that they had been right to dismiss him as a pretty playboy loafer riding high and lucky on the expense account of a
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